Silas Edwards

Publications

Edwards, Silas. “Natural History According to Animals: Whitney Barlow Robles Tells an Alternative

Story of Enlightenment Science.” KULT_online. 2025.
Edwards, Silas. “Collecting Contagion: Moral Narratives of Sex and Stickiness in Alfred Fournier’s

Wax Models.” In Sticky Films: Conceptual and Material Explorations, edited by Kerim Doğruel,

Fadekemi Olawoye and Clara Podlesnigg. Meson Press. Forthcoming, October 2025.

Presentations

'Extinction and Excess: Over-collecting and Environmental Ethics in Pre-war Germany'. Paper Presentation, Lisbon Consortium for the Study of Culture, Lisbon, 4th July 2025.
'Invisible Entomologists: Indigenous Labour and the Global Specimen Trade ca. 1900'. Paper Presentation, Hermes Summer School, University of Montpellier Paul Valéry, Montpellier, 18th June 2025.
Museums in the Age of Extinction'. Lecture for BA students, Institute of Heritage Studies/Department of
Art History, Vienna, May 14th 2025.
'Hunting for Images: Butterfly Collecting and the Colour Revolution'. Workshop Presentation. Animals and Empire Conference, Institute for (Post-)colonial Heritage at Hamburg University, Hamburg, Lisbon, 21st March 2025.

Research Interests

Teaching: Collaboration on Lecture Series "Museums, Exhibitions, Conservations" at Institute for Heritage Studies, University of Vienna.

Projects: Writing on the Wall: a collaborative artistic research project into the history and politics of museum labels.

Memberships: 2024-present: Co-speaker of Research Area 9 for Ecology and the Study of Culture, GCSC.

2024-present: Colour Studies Working Group, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

2024-present: Insect Humanities Working Group, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

2021-present: International Committee of Museums.

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